Specifically macrophages, these are the guys that are your body’s soldiers. And there presence is significant, actually, they are probably the problem, the fat cells are innocent bystanders.

You see, obesity is not just a problem of excess calories, if you’re overweight, you have a low grade inflammatory response, going on in your body. This inflammatory response is the real reason being fat is unhealthy.

Placentas are on fire

This is what researchers from Western Reserve University, discovered.

They took blood and placental samples from 35 women, 20 were considered to be obese, the rest had normal weights. The samples were collected when the women were giving birth to their baby – all the women had chosen to have a c-section i.e. they were undergoing an elective caesarean. Guess they didn’t get the memo, that this decision, predisposes their baby to a life time of “battling the buldge”.

The team assessed the level of inflammation in the samples, using several techniques.

They discovered, the fatter ladies had two to three times more macrophages on high alert in their placentas.

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